Sanneman v. Chrysler Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Amchem Products, Inc. v. Windsor · Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin · General Telephone Co. of Southwest v. Falcon · Califano v. Yamasaki
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“incongruous with the efficiencies expected in a class action,” providing the best notice practicable under Rule 23(c)(2) in a Rule 23(b)(3) action, and protecting defendants by ensuring that those persons ultimately bound by the final judgment could be clearly identified. Id. at 593 . Our opinion in Catrera expanded on some of the concerns addressed in Marcus, specifically relating to a defendant’s”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Byrd v. Aaron's Inc.“Courts are hesitant to certify classes in litigation where individual use factors present themselves, such as cases involving allegedly defective motor vehicles and parts. The administrative burdens are frequently too unmanageable for a class action to make sense in such cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]o find superiority, a court must find all other methods of resolving the issues in a case to be inferior to a class action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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